<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, B. S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bs27975@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">bs27975@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It wouldn't surprise me that the only reason ssh (ssl, actually?) is even possible within a proprietary provided environment is the not exactly 'GPL or die' licensing availability within ssl. At least as of the last time I looked at it.<br>
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[I just took a quick peek at <a href="http://openssh.com" target="_blank">openssh.com</a>, <a href="http://openssl.org" target="_blank">openssl.org</a>, and wikipedia to try and get a sense of the licensing stuff ... then quietly shut the door and walked away. So I can't quickly give references here, but it does seem to me one doesn't have to entirely GPL their stuff to make use of the community code, but being able to do so required careful navigation.] No doubt MS didn't want to have to bury some "This is free and open source code you may download directly for yourself." notice somewhere.<span class=""><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's assuming they use openssh instead of one of the numerous other implementations (or write their own).<br><br> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSH_servers">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSH_servers</a><br><br></div><div>Microsoft has their own implementation of SSL/TLS for example (schannel).<br></div><div><br> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementations">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementations</a><br><br> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Support_Provider_Interface">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Support_Provider_Interface</a><br></div><br clear="all"></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chris Irwin<br><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></div></div>
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